Gary Wolstenholme takes a look at this lightweight 7.5x superzoom lens for EF-S compatible Canon cameras with Image Stabilisation.

Good resolution at optimum apertures; Lightweight design; Effective Image Stabiliser

Chromatic Aberrations at 18mm; Barrel distortion at 18mm; No lens hood supplied

Camera lens auto focus broke within one week and you could hear grating/rattling from lens. Returned lens for replacement and I'm waiting for a new one to arrive soon. Worked great until it broke down though...

Easily Interchangeable; Fast / accurate auto-focus

Gary Wolstenholme takes a look at this lightweight 7.5x superzoom lens for EF-S compatible Canon cameras with Image Stabilisation.

Good resolution at optimum apertures; Lightweight design; Effective Image Stabiliser

Chromatic Aberrations at 18mm; Barrel distortion at 18mm; No lens hood supplied

This lens is a worthy alternative to the standard kit lens for your crop-sensor Canon SLR. The very flexible focal range and fast, accurate auto-focus make it a good option to stick on the front of your camera if you want to leave the rest of your kit at home for the day.

quick auto-focus; flexible focal range

not as sharp as some; poor manual focus ring

A great EF-S APS sized zoom lens that covers a mild wide angle to telephoto range. The 4 stops IS marketing fluff is true. It tested it down to 1/4 of a second and the images come out crisp and clean as against IS being turned off where camera shake and blur really shows.

A wonderful image range of 18-135mm (29-216mm), REAL Image Stabilization rated at 4 stops; 3 stops rating on other reviews, but hey, 3 to 4 stops is great feature, The difference between a non IS and IS on a 70-200mm white lens is over a thousand dollars.

It looks like a plain cheap cylinder, not a sexy lusty lens; It doesn't demand attention as the more sexy L and white lenses, Soft at the wide angle end, for the pixel conscious; Set to F8 and sharpness improves dramatically

Bad lens.

erratic AF; awful CA; really short sharpening

good use range; good color; fast AF ***

Very happy with this lens. For the price it would be hard to find a better lens that does as much

Consistent Output; Easily Interchangeable; Fast / accurate auto-focus

Slightly heavy for a lens

Very versatile, the quality of this lens is superb, giving me clean, clear shots under all lighting conditions in the field...in any terrain, and from most angles. The range (18-135mm) enables me to easily frame the old barns and sheds I photographin the way I want to frame them.

Consistent Output; Easily Interchangeable; Fast / accurate auto-focus; Lightweight

Its optics are great, and it has unusually great handling. It is a very sturdy lens; almost the entire body is the zoom ring, and zooming and focus are a breeze. Close focus is only 1.5 feet (0.45 meters), so if you can see it, you can shoot it!

I've been using an EF-S 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 lens on my old Rebel, which was the crappy one that came with the camera, forever. It's taken me years to decide on a general purpose lens that would take the place of the one I'm employing.